... Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, master of the wholebasin of the Tigris and Euphrates in the time of Abraham. Among his vassals were Amraphel, king of Shinar,and Arioch, king of Ellasar, the two principal ... used again and againuntil no trace of its original destination or of the buildings in which it was found remained. In Assyria long chains of hills traversed the plain and stretched here and there ... the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,"And...